ARTFORUM
Agosto/August 2016
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| Regina Silveira, serie Dreaming of blue, 2016 |
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| Leandro Erlich, Blind Window, 2016 |
When you approach this new space, it’s not easy to tell that it’s an art
gallery, because what you first see is a house, which was designed in 1958 by Rino Levi, with
landscaping by Roberto Burle
Marx. It’s rooted in a peculiar relationship between interior and
exterior in which nature, in the form of two outdoor gardens, makes its way in
through the building’s glass walls. With Regina Silveira’s
works and Leandro Erlich’s
installation, this indoor-outdoor relationship is particularly gratifying. The
concept has been a long-standing interest of both artists.
An exhibition of Silveira’s work at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo in
2010 is the origin of her exhibition here. In the museum installation, the
artist covered the glass facade with images of clouds. This exhibition is also
suggestive of the atmosphere, as Silveira overglazes ceramic tiles—such as
those that comprise the stunning panel Dreaming of Blue I(works
cited 2016)—to re-create the sky indoors. Silveira has always been interested
in encoding, and the cross-stitch patterns illuminate and simultaneously
obfuscate meaning within these elegantly wrought pieces. Installed in the
living room, Erlich’s Blind Window consists of a glass sheet
with a window in the middle. Sealed off by bricks, this window gives rise to
myriad speculations on the (in)visibility of the relationships between private
and public space.
In the front garden and down in the cellar of the venue, several works
from “Residência moderna” (Modern Residence)—the first exhibition held
at this new site, just before this one—remain on display. The gallery continues
to create a fluid and dynamic visual rapport between the works of art and the
home that cradles them.
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Texto publicado na revista mensal Artforum, por ocasião da exposição “REGINA SILVEIRA: TRAMADOS / LEANDRO ERLICH: BLIND WINDOW”, na Galeria Luciana Brito, São Paulo, Brasil, Junho-Agosto, 2016.
